dino_soup

[stone barn]

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[wet needle]

isn't the difference between "doesn't he do that?" and "he doesn't do that" that one is a question and the other isn't

[hard blaze]

Ig, but like, you can say "he doesn't do that??" And it be a question but it still feels different than "doesn't he do that"

Idk maybe I'm just tweaking

I get confused with english and it's my first language lmfao

[wet needle]

anyway, about french

il fait pas ça ? is just the informal way of asking the question

without changing the order

using inversion is formal and using est-ce que is in-between

[hard blaze]

So I assume then it's an inversion thing when it changes it from "he doesn't like that?" To "doesn't he like that?"

[wet needle]

yeah bc the verb is placed before the subject

[hard blaze]

Gotcha, that makes sense tyy

[crisp nimbus]

Just keep in mind that inversion is natural/common and used in conversations in English while in French, it is reserved to formal contexts, not really the sort of thing you use in conversations.